A Doodle alternative for group trip dates
Doodle collects votes on options and shows you the tally. If the options are days and the question is which stretch of them the most people can make, you want something that does the arithmetic.
What Doodle is
Doodle is a scheduling product: group polls, booking pages, one-to-ones, sign-up sheets. It is aimed at professional scheduling, and priced that way — the free plan covers one group poll, one booking page and one 1:1, and moving past that, or removing the ads, means Pro at USD 11 per seat per month billed annually, or Team at USD 16. Answering a poll is free for the people you invite, but creating one starts with a sign-up.
From doodle.com/en/premium, read 28 August 2026.
Why a poll is the wrong shape for a trip
A poll asks people to vote on options you defined in advance. For a trip, the options are not obvious — that is the whole problem. "First weekend or second weekend" already assumes the answer is a weekend, and if the group could actually manage five days in the middle of the month, a poll of weekends will never find it.
The second problem is what a poll gives back: a tally per option. Nine people can do the 12th, seven can do the 13th. Fine, but which run of days can a group all make from start to finish? A tally does not contain that answer, and working it out by hand across a month of columns is exactly the thing people get wrong.
What WeGoWhen does instead
You set an outer window rather than a list of options, and share one link. Everyone taps the days they are free. WeGoWhen then computes, for every possible run of consecutive days, who can make all of it — and ranks those runs by how many people they include, then by length, then by date. No option list to guess at, and no tally to interpret: the top row is the recommendation.
Side by side
| Doodle | WeGoWhen | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Meetings and appointments | Multi-day trips |
| What you set up | A list of options to vote on | An outer date window |
| What you get back | A tally per option | Ranked consecutive date ranges, with who can make each |
| Free plan | One group poll, one booking page, one 1:1; ads | Everything, unlimited, no ads |
| Paid tiers | Pro USD 11 and Team USD 16 per seat per month, billed annually | None |
| Account to create | Yes | No |
| Account to answer | No | No |
When to stay with Doodle
Doodle does a great deal that WeGoWhen deliberately does not: booking pages, calendar integrations, reminders, deadlines, hiding participants from each other, Zoom and Teams links, paid bookings. If you are scheduling client meetings, that is the product, and this is not competing for that job.
WeGoWhen does one thing: the dates of a trip for a group of friends. It has no accounts, no notifications and no integrations, and that is the trade it makes.
Questions people ask next
Which is better, Doodle or When2meet?
For a meeting, it is a trade rather than a winner: Doodle adds calendar sync, reminders and booking pages behind a sign-up and a paid tier, while When2meet is free and asks for no account at all. Neither answers which stretch of days a group can travel for, because both are built around picking one slot.
Is there a free Doodle alternative with no plan limits?
WeGoWhen is free with no paid tier, no trial and no per-seat pricing, and nothing is gated behind a plan — where Doodle's free plan covers one group poll, one booking page and one 1:1. It is also narrower: trip dates only, no bookings and no integrations.
Can Doodle poll a range of dates rather than single days?
Doodle can put whole days on a poll, so the answer to the literal question is yes. What it does not do is work out which runs of consecutive days a group can all make: that arithmetic across a month of options is the part it leaves to you, and the part WeGoWhen does.